OATS—“WEATHER” OR NO 
Our farmer friends now demand cold re¬ 
sistance and smut resistance combined with 
high production. We are proud that we have 
been able to produce three excellent varieties 
that combine such qualities. 
While gratified, we are not satisfied and are 
not resting on our laurels. To be convinced 
of this you should come to Hartsville this 
spring around the middle of May. Here you 
will see hundreds of new strains of cold and 
smut resistant oats in head-to-row, plant-to- 
row and variety tests, 14-acre blocks and 
larger fields. You will see many new oats 
coming from new crosses of various Norton 
strains and Fulghum x Navarro strains with 
such a wealth of new material, the possibili¬ 
ties of new and more valuable strains is evi¬ 
dent to any observer. 
These strains have survived the worst pos¬ 
sible smut innoculation and have come through 
clean. They have stood the low temperatures 
of 1933 without damage. They have surpassed 
in yield the older strains. In these you can 
find an oat to fill any need. 
Rust, cold, smut resistance, production. To get an oat to 
fill all needs of the southern grower we have but to add more 
rust resistance to the cold and smut resistance of our present 
highly productive strains. 
To accomplish this we are crossing Coker Fulgrain, 33-47 
or 32-1 oats and others that have cold resistance, smut re¬ 
sistance and high production, on highly rust resistant South 
American varieties and others. We will then select, breed, 
test and eliminate on yield, smut and rust resistance, until 
strains are found that combine all qualities desired. 
It is not simple or easy because many highly rust resistant 
varieties as Alber, Capa, Common Red, Victoria and Bond, 
while having high rust resistance and smut resistance, have 
many objectionable characters which must be bred out of 
the crosses in order to produce an oat that combines only 
the good characters of both parents. 
Realizing the magnitude of the undertaking we have in 
plant-to-rows and head-to-rows this season thousands of 
selections coming from such crosses. We want you to see this 
work. As one eminent college professor termed, “it is a veri¬ 
table plant breeders paradise.” Here you can 
see 11,094 head and plant selections of oats 
in test, 332 varieties and strains of oats in 
variety smut tests, 52 strains in 14 to 1 acre 
blocks, 6 strains in large increase, a cold test 
and a rate of seeding test. Also a striking new 
cold and smut resistant oat to be offered the 
coming season, growing under field conditions. 
Also 182 inbred strains of rye, 41 varieties of 
wheat in test and 4,043 hybrid wheat selec¬ 
tions in head-to-rows. 
Over 25,000 test rows are devoted to our 
small grain breeding work. 
We want you to come and 
see this great work that can 
add so much to the profits of 
Southern Agriculture. You 
can see nothing like it any¬ 
where else in the South. 
TOP—Right Breeding for Rust 
Resistance. 
CENTER—Increase Plots. 
BOTTOM—Smut Resistance. 
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